Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 2090, Thomas Fillebrown, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Fillebrown, Thomas Sarah
W 2090 B.L.Wt. 8007-160-55
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S. Maine 11.317
Thomas Pillsbury
of Kennebec in the State of Maine who was a Major in the Company commanded by Captain Crafts of the Regt commanded by Col. Lincoln in the Massachusetts line of Troops.
2. Salaries of Station - $ 100.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 100 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 d day of April 1833 and sent to R. C. [blank] Esq. Augusta, Me
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 100. Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 50
150.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. S. Sprague Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 1 Page 15

Maine, Sarah Tillebrown, widow of Thomas, Tillebrown who served in the Revolutionary Massachusetts line war, as a Matron.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued 19 th day of May 1853 and sent to
G. M. Morton, Augusta, Me.
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 3 Vol. 1

65.7699 Set Mar 3/33
April 12/33
Sarah Fillebrown mra
Thos Fillebrown Pension
Fillebrown, Matrop.
Under Act Feb 1833
Mass: Hoop.
Revolution War
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Geo W Morton Suzanna me
Vol. F. 48.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
CITY OF BOSTON, February 14 th 1853.
I, the subscriber, do hereby certify, that it appears by the Registry of Marriages of said Boston, that Thomas Fillebrown and Sarah Cushing were married by the Reverend Thomas Baldwin D.D. on the twentieth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty
The record is in the words and figures following, viz:
"Thomas Fillebrown & Sarah Cushing, married by Rev. Thomas Baldwin D.D. 20 July 1820"
Artemas Simonds, City Registrar.
I, Artemas Simonds above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of City Registrar, of the City of Boston, in the County of Suffolk, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts; that I am the keeper of the Registry of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, in said City, and that the above is a true extract from the records of Marriages, in said City, with the exception above named, as certified by me.
Artemas Simonds
SUFFOLK, ss.—BOSTON, Feb 14 1853. The above named Artemas Simonds appeared and made oath to the truth of the above certificates by him subscribed, and I further certify that I have no interest or encumbrance in the prosecution or result of this claim before me.
Wm Balfrey Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, March 3 1853
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation William Balsey was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. C. Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Declaration. In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress "approved Feb 3. 1853"
State of Maine,
Kennebec County S.S.
On this first day of March 1853 personally appeared before the undersigned a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine Sarah Fillebrown a resident of Winthrop in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine aged Seventy seven years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed Feb. 3. 1853 entitled "An Act to continue half pay pensions to certain widows and orphans". That she is the widow of Thomas Fillebrown who was a revolutionary pensioner of the United under the Act of June 7. 1832, at the rate of fifty  one hundred dollars per annum, that his pension was payable at the United States Agency for paying pensions at Portland State of Maine, when it was paid during his lifetime up to March 4. 1844. from which time to June 14. 1844 it was received by her as his widow.
She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Fillebrown in the City of Boston in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the twentieth day of July 1820, that her name before her marriage was Sarah Cushing, that her said late husband Thomas Fillebrown died on the fourteenth day of June 1844 in the town of Winthrop. She further swears that she was a widow at the passage of said Act of Feb. 3. 1853, and is still a widow, and that she has never

before make application for a pension, and that she has re- -mained unmarried ever since the death of her late husband the said Thomas Fillebrown.
her
Sarah Fillebrown mark.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written Win March 1. 1853. Richard D. Rice J. J. C. Clerk.
I hereby certify that the above named Sarah Fillebrown, being unable by reason of age and infirmary, to appear in open court, has subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing dis- -claration, before me, at her residence in Win- -throp; subscribing her name by her mark. I further certify that I have full confidence in the truth of her declaration as above written having had personal acquaintance with Thomas Fillebrown her late husband
Richard D. Rice Judge of the Court of the State of Maine
State of Maine, } County of Kennebec } ss. I William M. Stratton, Clerk of the Judicial Court of Maine for said County, do hereby certify that the Hon. Richard D. Rice is a Judge of the said court - and that Asaph R. Nichols, Esq. is a Justice of the Peace for said County - and the respective signatures purporting to be theirs, are genuine - In testimony whereof I have } hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said } Court this fourteenth day of March, A.D. 1853 - }
W. M. Stratton

No 533 Sarah Dillebrown widow of Dr. Dillebrown for Pension under 2 o Sec. of Act Feb. 3. 1853.
He $100 per annum, Commg 7 Feb 1853
3 3 3
Gov W Morton Atty Augusta Maine.

Woburn Thos. Tillebrowns Malvol
Capt. Lincoln C o Crafts artillery Massachusetts troops - from 1 st Land ing '80 to May 1783 - served - 2 years - 4 1/2 mo E. D. Bangs Certificate
Admitted By law Master of Artillery $100. -
R. G. Close, Augusta, Me.

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
On this seventh day of December A. D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Judge a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Then at Fillebrown a resident of Winthrop in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged Sixty nine years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1701 with Captain Amos Lincoln and served in Col. Thomas Crafts regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: Lincoln Captain Crafts Colonel . That on the first day of January 1701 he enlisted as a private soldier or matross in that company and regiment of artillery for the period of three years. That under this enlistment he continued to serve until the fourteenth day of May 1703, when he was honorably discharged at Nantasket in Boston harbor
He was born in Woburn, near Boston in 1763 and that his birth is recorded in Boston, which was the residence of his father's family, and that that town and neighborhood was his home during his revolutionary service. That in October 1703 he removed to Hallowell, Maine, and that in 1800 he removed to Winthrop where he now lives. That he served principally at the fort in Nantasket, but occasionally at Boston and at Castle William. That Paul Revere was his Lieut Colonel. That his Lieuts were Phillips, Gordon and Whitman. That he enlisted as before stated, and that if he took any written discharge it is now lost
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
Th. Fillebrown
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before
Nathan Weston J. S. P. C.
And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston

The Fillebrown Memoir
State of Maine.
KENNEBEC, ss.—I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Judg'r , before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Thomas Fillebrown for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 7 th day of December
A. D. 183 2 ,
J. A. Chandler Clerk

63.969
Sarah Pillsbury Revolutionary Pension Widow of John
~~~~~ Adams Pillsbury
Claim of _____
TO BOUNTY LAND.
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855. That not the bounty land should be paid to the widow of the late Henry of the Revolution.
~~~~~ PRESENTED BY GEO. W. MORTON, ATTORNEY, AUGUSTA, MAINE. ~~~~~

BOUNTY LAND CLAIM.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. COUNTY OF Kennebec }
On this sixth day of April A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five personally appeared before me, Francis Fuller a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Sarah Pillsbury aged seventy three years, a resident of Winthrop in the State of Maine, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the identical Sarah Pillsbury the widow of Thomas Pillsbury who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and that she is now a Revolutionary Pensioner under the provisions of the act of March 3, 1855, and that the person heretofore known to her as Thomas Pillsbury is the same person who was known to her as the identical Sarah Pillsbury and who is a Revolutionary Pensioner of which the following is a true copy, viz:
No 425 Department of the Interior, United States Pension Office. I certify that in conformity with the provisions of the act of February 2, 1855, Sarah Pillsbury widow of Thomas Pillsbury late of Winthrop in the State of Maine, is inserted on the pension roll of the late Thomas Pillsbury and Sarah Pillsbury for a full pension, commencing on the 27th day of February, 1855, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry, in which case the pension will cease after the time of such remarriage. Given at the Department of the Interior this fourteenth day of April , one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
C. P. Noble Commissioner of Pension. R. M. McCall Secretary of the Interior. makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the BOUNTY LAND to which she may be entitled under the "Act approved March 3, 1855." She also declares that she has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor.
Sarah Pillsbury  Me, W. C. Hopkins and Sarah C. Hayward residents of Winthrop in the State of Maine, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Sarah Pillsbury in our presence; and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be. W. C. Hopkins  Sarah C. Hayward
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Francis Fuller Justice of the Peace.

POWER OF ATTORNEY.
Know all men by these presents. That I, David Pillsbury of Waltham in the County of Waltham and State of Maine, have constituted and appointed GEO. W. MORTON, of the City of Augusta, in the State of Maine, my true and lawful Attorney, irrevocably, for me and in my name, to prosecute and receive from the United States the Bounty Land Certificate, or Warrant, due me under existing Laws granting Bounty Lands for services rendered in the United States in the different wars, and generally to do all lawful acts and things whatsoever touching the premises, and an attorney or attorneys under him, for the purpose aforesaid to make, and at his pleasure to revoke, hereby confirming all and whatsoever my said attorney shall in my name legally do, or cause to be done, in the premises.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-
Witness: Francis Fuller
STATE OF MAINE, COUNTY OF Waltham ss:—On the Sixth day of April 1855 personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County David Pillsbury and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his free act and deed.
Francis Fuller
Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. COUNTY OF Waltham }
I HEREBY CERTIFY, that Francis Fuller before whom the within declaration, affidavit, and power of attorney, were made and executed, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature thereto is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto signed my name and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County aforesaid, this ninth day of April 1855
Wm Stratton CLERK.

July 23 98 C L Fillebrown Lockington Ohio Ser I 5389
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WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 2090 Sarah Fillebrown Widow Thomas Fillebrown Mother Rev. Wm. Act: Feb 3. 1859
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 236
[Arrangement of 1870.]

No. 63769
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received April 12, 1855.
Tho: Tillebrown Rev: War
Warrant 200, 7-160-55
Geo W. Morton Augusta Maine

8007
160 amys

123 Maine Sarah Gilchrist widow of Thomas
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Widow
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence the 4th day of March, 1818.
3 rd February 1853 Certificate of Pension issued 19 th day of May 1853 and sent to
G. W. Morton Augusta Me.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 22, 1818, Page 3 Vol. 10
1832

Mr. W. 100/53, Mr.
Up 100.

I Nathan Weston of Augusta, in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, do depose that I was well acquainted with the late Thomas Dillebrown who, died in Winthrop in said County. that he died in said town of Winthrop about the year 1844. that he was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States. that Sarah Dillebrown now residing in said town of Winthrop. is the widow of the said late Thomas Dillebrown, her name before her marriage was Sarah Cushing and that she has remained a widow ever since the death of her late husband the said Thomas Dillebrown.
Nathan Weston
State of Maine. } }
County of Kennebec } }
On this seventh day of March 1853. appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace, in for said County of Kennebec, Hon. Nathan Weston, formerly chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, a gentleman of truth & veracity, and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed.
Asaph B. Nichols.
Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, July 26 1832.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that
Thomas Fillebrown served as a Matross in Capt. Amos Lincoln's Company of State Artillery, from January 1. 1781 to May 14. 1783.
Edward D. Bangs, Secy of Com te .
Edward D. Bangs Esq is Secy of State of Massachusetts.
Nathan Weston

STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec County, ss.
AT the Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Augusta, within and for the County of Kennebec, on the first Tuesday of October, A. D. 1832, and thence by adjournment on the thirtieth day of March A. D. 1833.
PERSONALLY appears in open Court Thomas Fillebrown by whom the annexed declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7th, 1832, was made before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jr. on the Seventh day of December A. D. 1832, and makes oath, in due form of law, that the annexed declaration, by him made and signed, is true.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
Nathan Weston Just S. J. C.
I, JOHN ALPHONSO CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix the seal of said Supreme Judicial Court, and subscribe my name this 30th day of March A. D. 1833.
J. A. Chandler

Augusta. Maine
March 14. 1853
Sir,
I herewith enclose papers for the purpose of having Sarah Dillebrown allowed a pension under the 2 d Ser. of the Act of Feb. 3. 1853. The facts in the case are as follows. viz
Thomas Dillebrown her husband died June 11. 1844 and was a pensioner under Act of Subt June 7. 1832 at $100 per Annum, her pension was payable at the U. States Agency for paying Pensions in State of Maine. She was married to him July 20. 1820, and has remained a widow ever since his death. If her declaration with the accompanying papers are satisfactory, I would respectfully request you to allow her claim and send me as her agent a pension certificate for her.
Very Respectfully
G. B. South
For W. Morton
Hon James E. Heath Commr of Pensions Washington City.

Sarah Billbrough y. und, Thomas Billbrough Roy File m 2090

Brief in the case of Sarah Littlebrown, widow of Wm. Kennebec County and State of Maine act 3 Feb 1833
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner at $100 per annum. He died
Proof of marriage — Record. From the town in which the ceremony was performed.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
G. W. McLean Augusta Me
J. C. A. Examining Clerk.